It's really just F Natural minor with a passing E, but I've been calling this scale the "bebop minor" scale for years to make it easier to convey in theory classes. What's really nice about it is that it contains both the R-b9-#9-3 aspect of the altered dominant chord, and the R-2-b3-4-5 aspect of the parent minor tonality. This is the scale that I aske every student to master as a "parent scale" for a minor ii-V-i before venturing into the myriad other possibilities - and FWIW, it's where the melody to many standards comes from as well.

It's really just F Natural minor with a passing E, but I've been calling this scale the "bebop minor" scale for years to make it easier to convey in theory classes. What's really nice about it is that it contains both the R-b9-#9-3 aspect of the altered dominant chord, and the R-2-b3-4-5 aspect of the parent minor tonality. This is the scale that I aske every student to master as a "parent scale" for a minor ii-V-i before venturing into the myriad other possibilities - and FWIW, it's where the melody to many standards comes from as well.

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Right on....................wonderful sound for me. And it's a great "blanket scale", in moderation of course. Hmm.

It's my usual scale of choice on V7alt > Im7 - I just can't get into the sound of the alt scale in that context (don't like the #4, basically !)

With the exception of the passing E natural, it sounds like a phrygian scale. However, if you were to take out the Eb and replace it with the E natural (that being C Db E(nat) F G Ab Bb (perhaps even replace with a B nat)) then you would have a Spanish Phrygian, if I'm not mistaken.
Now, the exact name of this 8 note scale may not really exist, but folks have been inventing scales forever; it's just that the collective democracy of Western tonality decides to name a few of the common ones.

For a terrific list of synthentic scales, check out Persichetti's "Twentieth Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice."